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Born in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father. When her new friend, Loveday Carey-Lewis, invites Judith home for the weekend to Nancherrow, the Carey-Lewises' beautiful estate on the Cornish coast, it is love at first sight.

For the first time in unabridged audio download comes Rosamunde Pilcher's phenomenal, heart-warming bestseller, read by Hayley Atwell. Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one...

Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in her pretty Hampshire village. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog, Horace, and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar - to ensure that her days include companionship as well as independence. But an unforeseen tragedy upsets Elfrida's tranquillity: Oscar's wife and daughter are killed in a terrible car crash, and he finds himself homeless when his stepchildren claim their dead mother's inheritance.

As spring comes to Scotland and the hills burst into life, a dance is planned for September. The invitations summon home the group of people Violet Aird has cared for most in her long life. The oldest, strongest and wisest of them all, she sees Alexa, her vulnerable granddaughter, find love for the first time while the decision to send her little grandson away to school is driving parents Edmund and Virginia even further apart.

Sitting on a California beach at summer's end, Jane Marsh thinks back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie in a remote corner of Scotland. She remembers not only the heather-covered hills and the lonesome loch but her grandmother...and, of course, Sinclair. She has secretly dreamed of marrying rakishly handsome Sinclair and settling at Elvie forever. Then an urgent visit from her grandmother's lawyer becomes the catalyst for her return to Scotland, where waiting for her is passion, not gentle love....

Prue is intelligent, artistic, independent - and bored. Pressured by her mother to make a conventional and dull marriage, she is delighted to escape London and seek retreat with her eccentric and bohemian aunt in Cornwall. A chance encounter with an attractive young artist on the seashore leads to day after idyllic summer's day of exploring the Cornish countryside and coast. But there is something troubling Daniel, and Prue - now deeply entangled - feels compelled to discover what it is.

Can you ever re-create that first great love? Victoria Bradshaw fell in love with London playwright Oliver Dobbs when she was just 18. But he left her and disappeared from her life. Now, years later, he is a widower standing on her doorstep with his two-year-old son in his arms. And Victoria is foolish enough to want to take him back. Their early spring journey to a castle in Scotland becomes an odyssey of emotional discovery....

La elegante pluma de Rosamunde Pilcher recrea un microcosmos de sentimientos enmarcados en unas complejas relaciones familiares. Penelope Stern, protagonista de esta historia, es hija de un cotizado pintor de fama internacional. Su estabilidad afectiva depende de una serie de hechos ocurridos en el pasado. Ha convivido dolorosamente con sus secuelas, pero ahora está dispuesta a unir todos los cabos sueltos. Y no cejará en su empeño hasta conseguir comprenderse a sí misma y a los miembros de su familia.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, Winter Solstice (the basis for the TV movie) is the story of five unforgettable characters, lonely and haunted strangers who find love and loyalty as a reborn family of friends during the Christmas holidays. Elfrida Phipps, once of...

At her dying mother's bedside, Rebecca Bayliss is shattered to learn of a family she never knew existed. Determined to find them, Rebecca journeys to Boscarva, a beautiful mansion in Cornwall, to meet a family torn by passion and greed. From her grandfather Grenville Bayliss, who is hiding an explosive secret, to a handsome cousin whose kisses are dangerously seductive, to sensual craftsman Joss Gardner, whose past hints of intrigue, Rebecca becomes entangled in a family mystery.

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher’s Sleeping Tiger, a woman’s search for answers about her family history takes her on an unexpected journey of self-discovery… Whenever Selina asked about her late father, the grandmother who raised her changed the subject. The...

Enter Rosamunde Pilcher's world of simple joys, of crisp country air and crackling log fires, the pleasures of family reunions and rediscovered friendships. Through thick mist and a cold east wind, Lavinia returns to Scotland. Up at the big house, Mrs Farquhar is dying. Seeing Lachlan again, Lavinia remembers her childhood holidays there: swimming in the loch, the picnics, bottle-feeding the lambs down at the farm and the evenings when they danced reels. Most of all, she remembers Mrs Farquhar's grandson Rory.

Teeming with marvelous, memorable characters in a novel that is a true masterpiece, Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home—the basis for the TV miniseries of the same name—is a book to be savored, reread, and cherished forever. Against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II...

"Karussell des Lebens": Prue Shackleton, jung, schön und eigenwillig, kann die Ermahnungen ihrer Mutter zu einer Vermählung nicht mehr hören. Statt sich um einen vielversprechenden Heiratskandidaten zu kümmern, fährt sie kurz entschlossen zu ihrer exzentrischen Tante ans Meer. In der...

En esta magnífica colección de relatos, Rosamunde Pilcher explora con extraordinaria sensibilidad y talento las diversas facetas del alma humana. Una joven a punto de contraer matrimonio recibe unos consejos sorprendentes de su abuela; un niño pequeño se ve obligado a asumir las responsabilidades del cabeza de familia; un marido joven intenta revivir las experiencias de soltero... Historias de pequeños dramas domésticos; relatos de amor e infortunio, de felicidad y desesperación.

Rosamunde Pilcher's beloved saga of one family's passions and heartbreaks – plus an interview with the author ‘A deeply satisfying story written with love and confidence’ Maeve Binchy Recovering from a heart attack, Penelope Keeling discharges herself from hospital and returns to her cosy...

Wird Virginia erneut lieben können? Virginia Keiles unglückliche Ehe endet mit dem Tod ihres Mannes. Die junge Witwe kehrt zum erstenmal nach Jahren an ihren Heimatort in Cornwall zurück, um dort den Sommer zu verbringen: In einem abgeschiedenen Haus am Meer will sie mit ihren beiden Kindern endlich Ruhe finden. Doch damit ist es vorbei, als sie ihrer Jugendliebe Eustace Philips wiederbegegnet.

"Es wird allmählich Zeit, dass du heiratest." Prue Shackleton, jung, schön und eigenwillig, kann die Ermahnungen ihrer Mutter nicht mehr hören. Statt sich um einen vielversprechenden Heiratskandidaten zu kümmern, fährt sie kurz entschlossen zu ihrer exzentrischen Tante ans Meer. In der einsamen Landschaft Cornwalls findet Prue Ruhe und Abstand. Doch damit ist es vorbei, als sie dem jungen Künstler Daniel begegnet.

Laura er Alec Haverstocks kone nummer to og altid opmærksom på dette faktum. Det var ikke fordi, Alecs første ægteskab var synderlig lykkeligt, men det hænger alligevel som en sky over dem, og de taler aldrig om det barn, der måtte rejse med moderen til USA, og som han helt har mistet kontakten med.

Virginia Keile har en hemmelig drøm om en ny chance for at erobre den høje, smukke landmands hjerte; ham hun mødte - og mistede - en sommer i Cornwall for længe siden. Den 27-årige Virginia har lært en masse om livet; om at gifte sig med en mand, hun ikke elskede, om et ensomt ægteskab, der endte med hendes mands pludselige og voldsomme død, og om næsten at miste sine børn til sin forhadte svigermor. Men nu er hun vendt tilbage til det smukke Cornwall, hvor hun har lejet en hytte ved havet til sig selv og sine børn. Måske kan hun nu fylde det tomme hus med kærlighed.